Friday, December 30, 2011

One of the most frequent questions my colleagues ask me is how to create a Resume or Curriculum Vitae (CV), if you will, in LaTeX. I have a style file that was passed to me by a friend who found it on Internet. Since this looked good I used it and, thanks to the original contributor, I am going to share it with you all today. You will be able to download these files and create a professional Resume for yourself.

In the video tutorial, attached below, I have explained how to change the text for your needs. The structure of the Resume (or CV) is highly flexible and once you get hold of the basics it will be pretty straight forward for you to tweak it for your own use.

I have tried to add the basic sections that are present in most of the Resumes but you will most probably add more depending on your requirements. I am pretty sure it will be easy for you to add or remove a particular section.

Please leave a comment with a link to your Resume if you were able to use this template successfully. This will motivate me to work harder to bring you even cooler stuff. Moreover, please comment with requests if you want me to do a video tutorial of a specific topic.

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

This tutorial is an extension of previous video tutorial on how to use tikz for image creation in Latex. In this video I explain how to set up your document for flow chat design. This equally applies to any other image that uses similar structure.

Tikz is one of the most widely used packages for image creation in Latex. It has so much that there is absolutely nothing that you can't draw with latex and can with some other tool. In this tutorial we explain the basics of Tikz. We go over the basic shapes, how to draw them, how to understand the co-ordinates, and positioning of the components of an image.

Specifically, this tutorial demonstrates:

How to draw a rectangle in Latex using TikZ

How to draw a ellipse in Latex using TikZ

How to draw a circle in Latex using TikZ

How to draw an arc in Latex using TikZ

How to fill the shapes with colors

How to change the line styles - solid, dashed etc.

The code for this experiment is here:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{tikz}

\usetikzlibrary{shapes, arrows, shadows}

\begin{document}

\begin{tikzpicture}

\draw[fill=blue] (2,3) ellipse (2 and 3);

\draw[fill=red, style=dashed] (2,3) circle (2);

\draw (0,0) rectangle (4,4);

\draw[fill=red!50] (1,2) -- +(40:4) arc(40:180:4) -- cycle;

\end{tikzpicture}

\end{document}

The video where I develop this code and explain everything is below. If you have a question or want me to demonstrate any particular feature in Latex just leave me a comment and I will address it.

Saturday, December 24, 2011

This tutorial explains how to add basic text formatting to a Latex document. It is a short succinct video explaining to the point with examples. The code and the video both are available here.

After watching this video you will be able to do the following tasks in Latex:

How to make text Bold

How to make text Italicized

How to use subscript in text

How to use superscript in text

A little of math mode using "$" symbol

Here is the video for this tutorial

The code used in this tutorial can be found below:

\documentclass[8pt,letterpaper]{article}\begin{document}\title{A sample \LaTeX{} article by 5 minutes of Latex}\maketitle\section{Introduction}\huge This \normalsize is a \textbf{\textit{sample} introduction} section.\\This is a \textit{second line} in the introduction.\\This is a {\it third} line. $X_i$=$Y_{i^2}$\section{Motivation}This is an example of how to use a new section\end{document}

This is a tutorial that extends what we learnt in the previous tutorial on how to write IEEE style papers using Latex. In this tutorial we are going to talk about how to use citations in your paper. A paper is not complete without proper research and hence you need to cite those papers that add value to your own paper. Specifically, we are going to talk about:

What is a bibtex database

How to create a bibtex database

How to add an external database in your paper

How to add style to your bibtex database

How to assign citation keys to your bibtex database entries.

How to cite those references in your text

The code for this tutorial is given below. You need to create your own .bib file with the name ieetutorial.bib. Please leave a comment if you need help with that and I will post the file from tutorial:

This is the first tutorial in the video tutorial series on how to learn Latex. In this tutorial I will show you how to create a very basic Latex document.

In order to get started you need to download Latex on your machine (Windows, Mac, Linux). You can download the right package for you from this page.

Here is the code from the tutorial. The video is attached with explanation. Hope this will come handy to you.

\documentclass[8pt,letterpaper]{article}
%\usepackage[left=12mm, top=0.5in, bottom=5in]{geometry}
\begin{document}
\title{A sample /Latex/ article by 5 minutes of Latex}
\maketitle
\section{Introduction}
This is a smaple introduction section.\\
This is a second line in the introduction.\\
This is a third line.
\section{Motivation}
\end{document}

The motivation behind this tutorial is to share the knowledge for the benefit of everyone who wants to start using Latex.